Sunday, 6 September 2015

The Practical Template for Solving the European Migrant Problem.

The problem facing Europe is not only the vast number of
migrants that are flooding that continent. It is that, from past experience,
these people do not escape the Middle East. They bring the Middle East with
them with all the baggage that contains. The social fabric breaks down. It becomes
increasingly difficult to discern the traditional and indigenous society as
governments try to accommodate the overwhelming weight of strangers that do not
know their customs and do not speak their language.

Multiculturalism was a
dream. It failed. It became a magnet for millions of unwanted migrants. In its
place is a nightmare of unmanageable proportions.

The migrant problem has become a huge destabilizing headache
for Europe. It shouldn’t be. The solution should be closer the hand for the
migrants that originate in the Middle East and Northern Africa.

Had these migrants been Jewish you can be sure that Israel
would have taken emergency measures to accept and absorb them into the Jewish
State. By these migrants are not Jewish. The vast majority are Muslim and they
all speak Arabic. Therein lays the solution.

The host countries must be the rich Arab countries like Saudi
Arabia and the Persian Gulf states. They have vast stretches of land, far greater
than in Israel, for example, in which these people can be accommodated and
given productive lives.

To the west of the Libyan ports, from where thousands of
migrants set out of a perilous Mediterranean journey, lies Algeria and Morocco.
Europe would be advised to pump large sums of money into these countries to absorb
fellow Arabic-speaking Muslims.

It must be asked why these Arab nations have remained
cynically silent. There can only be one reason. They are as equally reticent in
accepting these migrants as Europe is, but this is the point, surely? Most of
the world is reluctant to be swamped by scenes we have witnessed. It does,
therefore, lead to the need to distribute the responsibility and the Arab
world, which is responsible for the mayhem and destruction that has wrought the
migrant whirlwind, must be forced to open their gates to people of the same
faith and of the same tongue.

While Europe agonizes over their moral conscience as they
cope with the humanitarian crisis, the Arab leaders have not expressed any
remorse or compassion over the fate of their fellow Arabs and co-religionists.
This cannot stand!

European nations individually, or via the European Union,
must call the Arab League to demand that they accept the bulk of the
migrants.

Let the Christians be accepted into Europe. Let the Muslim
Arabs go to Muslim Arab countries, and let Israel accept the Jews, the Druze
and Kurds for permanent or temporary shelter.

This division of labor is the simple and most practical way
of solving the current migrant problem. It will also be the template for
similar problems in the future.

Barry Shaw is Senior Adviser on Public Diplomacy at the
Israel Institute for Strategic Studies.